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So I’m at a coffee shop right now. An attempt to break up my day a little and a need for coffee, obviously. Yesterday we ran out OH NO. Haha. Anyone who knows me well knows that coffee has become sort of my blood. I am probably a coffee vampire…i don’t like that scratch it. They’re playing something that sounds a little bit like the Beatles here. You know the kind of music that plays at coffee shops that you’re never really sure what it is but you just want it to keep playing so you can drink your coffee and write your blog. It’s that kind of music. So yesterday I sent a proposal in to CORD again. This specific conference is on “Embodying Power: Distance Over Time”. My issue with this conference is that it’s a joint conference between CORD and a theatre studies thing. I mean, it’s not that I don’t like theatre studies, but it’s not what I do…and I don’t know about it. We’ll see I think my abstract was strong and pretty doable. Here’s to another year of impossible goals and expectations.

I had this idea for a blog while I was sipping my strong Voltaire coffee from Alterra with the music playing the almost Beatles music that I could do something like ‘A gay and his dog’ or something like that. On Friday we’re getting puppies and GOD KNOWS I will be stressed about that but in a good way. I just think it would be cute to document me and the puppies and Ra’ and the puppies. It wouldn’t always be about the dogs, obviously, more about me. Like this one except with more or less focus on a given day. I’ll probably just keep doing this one and make some about the dogs. That’s a more feasible, doable thing.

Speaking of the pups we’re gonna go to Petco today, you know where the pets go? We have to prepare the place for them. Puppy pads, dog food, KONG toys, blankets, a doggy bed. I am so ready to love dogs again. It’s been hard since Penny died a few years ago for me to open up to an animal like that, but it’s time. Penny would’ve wanted me to do so (Penny was my dog from 1st grade who had to be put down 3 years ago when she got lots of cancer in her body and couldn’t see or really walk anymore. She was the best dog a boy could ever have.) I will make them my family and miss them whenever I go anywhere. Why is it so much easier to write 500 words in a blog than 250 in an abstract? I suppose an abstract has goals…this blog clearly doesn’t.

Well with that I am probably going to stop this post. I look forward to Friday when the babies come home and meet their daddies and fall in love forever and steal our hearts. Ra’ has already said that I’ll have to be the disciplinarian, so I’m reading up on lots of training tips and watching “It’s you or the dog” like constantly. Remember when I said I was gonna end this post? Well it’s not often that I feel the need to keep writing so I figure I might as well keep going. (Most people would delete these sentences) OK now i’m really done. BAI.